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Rubio fundraises off State of the Union response by selling water bottles
By Chris Moody, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 1 hr 38 mins
From the very beginning, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has kept a sense of humor about his now infamous reach-and-sip moment during the official Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.
Now, he’s cashing in on it.
In exchange for a $25 donation to Rubio’s political action committee, the Reclaim America PAC will send you an official “Marco Rubio water bottle.”
“Send the liberal detractors a message that not only does Marco Rubio inspire you…he hydrates you too,” the page reads.
“http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rubio-fundraises-off-state-union-response-selling-water-013044227–politics.html”
Man, what was up with that? Rubio’s response was awful! He was sweating, panting, looking around nervously and the the water hing. If he’s the best the Repugs have, then they’re in a lot of trouble
“White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett admitted to NBC Today’s Savannah Guthrie that despite his avowed determination to avoid the upcoming fiscal cliff, President Obama hasn’t had a single discussion about it this year with Republicans.”
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/02/13/jarrett-admits-talks-gop-year-sequester/
Interesting.
More right wing bullsnort Cargo. That is a site that has a right wing agenda.
I noticed that Jarret’s response was cut off so that we couldn’t hear her entire response. That is exactly what Elena is talking about.
Right wing site picking out just the information it wants to send out. That is also a blogsite.
Are people who say “hyrating” instead of drinking water just a little affected, or what?
XL Pipeline – Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune also was arrested — the first time in the group’s 120-year history that a club leader was arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club’s board of directors approved the action as a sign of its opposition to the $7 billion pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
This cruise thing is scary. I would think twice before going on one.
I guess what I dont understand …why is it taking so long? Why can’t those people be helicoptered off that ship or why can’t another ship come pick them up?
What are life boats for? Some other big boats/ships could pick people up from those, couldn’t they?
@punchak,
That is what I was thinking. Do they still have life boats? Why can’t they sent a rescue cruise ship? Surely they have one that isn’t full of people.
Now the tow line broke.
I don’t think I would go on a cruise unless you held a gun to my head.
Make them go away. I just got my 8th survey call from the Republicans for the state convention. Why do they keep calling. Today I lied to them. Obviously telling the truth didn’t work. (highly unlikely not to go)
Someone got a false “bump,” in other words.
Sequester warnings are piling up
Posted by Josh Hicks on February 14, 2013 at 6:00 am
On Tuesday, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said sequestration would pose a dire threat to national defense at a dangerous time. “The wolf is at the door,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee, noting that the automatic cuts would eliminate $46 billion from the Pentagon budget over the next seven months and require furloughs for the defense civilian workforce.
Carter added on Wednesday that about 40 percent of the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees facing furloughs are veterans.
Already, the Pentagon has taken steps to trim spending in preparation for the possible sequester, including implementing a hiring freeze and slashing operating costs on military bases.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno said Tuesday: “I began my career in a hollow army. I don’t want to end my career in a hollow army.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2013/02/14/sequester-warnings-are-piling-up/
Repugs are playing political games with our national security
Throw in a missing Secretary of Defense now. That sure doesn’t send a very assuring message to the rest of the world now does it?
I just got back from the Sheriff’s domain. I think maybe I am blocked. I couldn’t type. My typing was invisible. That is a good trick.
So if I can’t say it there I will say it here. Sheriff, I am so very tired of the cheap shots at Marty. I get it. You don’t like him. At some point, You really need to stop digging at him.
I don’t agree with everything Marty does politically. That doesn’t make him a bad person. In fact, Marty is more than willing to lend most people in this county a hand when they need it or when they get no where with their own supervisor.
Really, you just sound like a bitch when you go on and on with the ballet remarks. Good for Marty and Hal Parrish for supporting the local arts.
No, Marty isn’t a teajadist. I like that about him. As for the much discussed little league team, I actually see nothing wrong with putting county money back into the kids and to youth sports, if it WAS county money.
I am sorry to see all the discretionary funds go. I think a few more checks and balances needed to be in place but I do think that involved supervisors often knew the best places to help out with county funds, especially in a county this size.
Meanwhile, its probably time to stop taking cheap shots at elected leaders. Stick to policy. The more decent people get attacked on the blogs, the options we will eventually have. Most people will not run for public office if they know they will continually be defending their families from the harsh attacks of anonymous bloggers sitting behind computer screens saying whatever the hell they want about the elected official. No one has skin that thick.
Frankly, I want more people running for office than less.
It is very possible to discuss problems in the county without ad hominem attacks.
One more thing…or two….the easy jab back at us is that we go after Corey. True. However we never go after Corey over personal issues. If he appears publically in his role as chairman, fair game. However, his personal life is just that–personal.
Secondly, we will often go weeks without commenting on Corey. He behaves he hears nothing from us.
New elementary school to open in Haymarket Sept 2014. Ground breaking ceremony later this spring. How many new schools????????
While most Repubs are toning down their rhetoric and trying to present themselves as a more moderate brand than they’ve been the last decade or two, the Cooch goes double-down on his right wing agenda that is popular with the segment of the party that is a declining demographic. More power to him. http://j.mp/VkUPMi
Manassas City Public Schools will be conducting a “Tour of Schools” on Saturday, February 16, 2013 from 10 a.m. till noon. The purpose of the tour is to allow City of Manassas residents the opportunity to visit facilities that were identified in recent Capital Improvement Project (CIP) discussions. The tour will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the Central Office (9000 Tudor Lane) and will include visits to the Central Office facilities, Johnson Learning Center, Baldwin Elementary and Dean Elementary. RSVP is past, but call the central office and see if you can still get on the tour. 571-377-6000.
@Morris Davis
Those guys just don’t get it, do they? Their message is the problem, not the messenger
Great quotes from Elena, Steve Thomas and Carlos Castro – peacemakers after a turbulent time!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/prince-williams-struggleoffers-lessons-for-immigration-reform/2013/02/16/7a56a298-763f-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html
Apparently, Elena is still receiving publicity and getting her name in the paper. That sort of thing happens when you’re on the winning side.
@Ivan
I guess that sort of blows Hypocrisy’s theory about Elena, doesn’t it?
Funny Ivan! Yes, my dear friend DW must be fuming. It’s funny, while she forces herself into the public forum (i.e. citizen time), I don’t need to force anyting, the wash post came to me, not the other way around!
Mark Sanford’s Forgiveness Tour After His Affair Could Land Him in Congress
Despite Bobby Jindal’s call for the GOP to “stop being the stupid party,” others refuse to cooperate. I suppose if you believe petitioning for your state to rip its star off of Old Glory makes you a “patriot” then a guy who directs his government staff to lie while he’s outsourcing a booty call to South America (apparently American exceptionalism doesn’t apply to American women since Sanford traded in his real American wife for a more exceptional foreign mistress) is an All-American family values hero.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/17/mark-sanford-s-forgiveness-tour-after-his-affair-could-land-him-in-congress.html
I had to suck up that pesky meals tax yesterday. I will for good food and good beer. I sure wish we had that sort of food here in-town. I did ask to just put on Mom’s tab. 🙂
Which meals tax got ya?
@Lafayette
Why should you be any different, everybody tries to put stuff on my tab.
BTW, prepare for that meals tax and a local income tax in PWC as the GA is trying to push legislation through that will allow the BOCS to enact them without a referendum or sunset clause. I’m betting if they get the power to do it five of our BOCS will push it through ostensibly to give the schools more funding.
I think the local income tax deal died in commmittee. Not positive but pretty sure I read that the last day or so.
It died in committee but rumor has it that it and the meals tax provision are being incorporated as part of the “deal” to get the transportation bill through the conference committee. Even then it may not survive a house vote but strange things are going on in Richmond.
I agree. Something didn’t smell right about what I read. I trust the GA about as far as I could throw it.
Colo. House passes gun-control measures
By IVAN MORENO | Associated Press – 2 hrs 35 mins ago
DENVER (AP) — Limits on the size of ammunition magazines and universal background checks passed the Colorado House on Monday, during a second day of emotional debates that has drawn attention from the White House as lawmakers try to address recent mass shootings.
The bills were among four that the Democratic-controlled House passed amid strong resistance from Republicans, who were joined by a few Democrats to make some of the votes close.
The proposed ammunition restrictions limit magazines to 15 rounds for firearms, and eight for shotguns. Three Democrats joined all Republicans voting no on the bill, but the proposal passed 34-31.
“Enough is enough. I’m sick and tired of bloodshed,” said Democratic Rep. Rhonda Fields, a sponsor of the bill and representative of the district where the shootings at an Aurora theater happened last summer. Fields’ son was also fatally shot in 2005.
http://news.yahoo.com/colo-house-passes-gun-control-measures-211816177.html
I’m sick and tired too. Good for CO
You know what I like about Colorado’s idiotic bill…
The chance that MAGPUL will move its 1000 employee, multi million dollar business out of state. I’m already contacting state reps to entice them to Virginia.
Cargo, your posts meaningless unless spell out acronyms. We don’t do gun-speak. Bang bang.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/02/18/rachel_maddow_special_hubris.html
In case you missed it.
Tax rate advertized….not even sure where but somewhere in the 3%’s. $1.197 maybe.
@Cargosquid Colt Manufacturing is located in Connecticut. Good on those blue states for killing their own jobs with legislation that won’t make a bit of difference in the long run.
Mitch McConnell is the #1 Repub in the Senate and an ex officio member of the Intelligence Committee. Pasted below is a link to a letter he sent over to the Pentagon asking for more information on their plan to extend Post-9/11 G.I. Bill benefits to Guantanamo detainees. The inquiry was based on a story in The Duffel Blog, a military version of The Onion. Some other recent Duffel Blog headlines includes “Intelligence Concludes North Africa Still ‘Pretty Much a Sh*#hole’ … Pope Benedict’s Resignation Tied to Paula Broadwell Affair … and Change of Command Ceremony Dissolves into Giant Orgy.” No word on whether extending veterans benefits to al Qaeda members played a role in Senate Repubs holding up a vote on SECDEF nominee (and actual veteran) Hagel.
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2013/02/McConnellDuffelblog1.jpg
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